Category Archives: Beyond the Bullet Points

It is hard in an hour long presentation to explore all the implications and aspects of participatory librarianship. Often times big ideas must fit into a single bullet point on a slide. I’m planning to post some deeper explorations of the pithy points. If there are some you like to make, or some that made you scratch your head, let me know.

Beyond the Bullet Points: For the Syracuse LIS Class of 2013

Posted on May 11, 2013 by rdlankes

It’s four in the morning and I should be asleep. Commencement starts in 5 hours, but chemo is keeping me awake. I was planning on writing a general message to new LIS graduates, but it just kept feeling overblown and … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Bullet Points: Rock Stars

Posted on March 15, 2013 by rdlankes

Editorial note. After having a great conversation with folks on twitter it became apparent that I devalued youth librarianship out of hand. I apologize for that and it was not my intention. I have noted the edit below. I got … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Bullet Points: Irony and Lymphoma

Posted on February 13, 2013 by rdlankes

Today I start chemotherapy. I realize for those who follow this blog that statement might come as a shock, it certainly does me. A few weeks ago I wrote about how I was in good health following seizures and illness … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Bullet Points: Confessions of an Assistant Professor (15 years later)

Posted on January 26, 2013 by rdlankes

I am often asked by academic librarians how to partner with tenure track faculty. I always tell them to help them with their tenure cases. Not just teach an untenured professor or his or her GA how to search: help … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Bullet Points: Missing the Point and 3D Printing

Posted on January 3, 2013 by rdlankes

OK, the post by Hugh Rundle (http://hughrundle.net/2013/01/02/mission-creep-a-3d-printer-will-not-save-your-library/) has gotten some attention. Most of it expected…bleeding edge folks think we need them, plenty of folks think they are unnecessary or not ready. However, all of these arguments miss the point in … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Bullet Points: Stand Up and Act

Posted on December 18, 2012 by rdlankes

I write this as a parent, as a teacher, and as a librarian. There is a conversation this country must have. A conversation about guns. A conversation about mental health. A conversation about how we protect our children, a conversation … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Bullet Points: IFLA Code of Ethics

Posted on August 29, 2012 by rdlankes

IFLA just released “IFLA Code of Ethics for Librarians and other Information Workers” (you can read it here http://www.ifla.org/files/faife/publications/IFLA%20Code%20of%20Ethics%20-%20Long_0.pdf) and to call is disappointing is putting it mildly. There are few documents that so clearly represent a collection centric worldview. … Continue reading →

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